From Cows
1937
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View on museum website →Medium
watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 12.7 x 17.7 cm (5 x 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Janss, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.224.1
About the Artist
Arthur Dove
Arthur Garfield Dove (1880–1946) was an American painter widely regarded as one of the first artists to create fully abstract works in the United States, a pioneer whose lyrical, nature-inspired abstractions gave American modernism a distinctly organic and spiritual character. Born in Canandaigua, New York, Dove initially worked as a commercial illustrator before traveling to Europe in 1907–1909, ...